It’s been lots of months considering that the T-Mobile G1 was at first rooted. in that time, the process has been streamlined as well as tools have been developed to make it much easier. having a rooted phone has ended up being even a lot more desirable with the recent release of the 1.5 firmware that includes an onscreen keyboard together with other improvements. having a rooted phone indicates you can do techniques like setting up a 3G/WiFi bridge. [Taylor Wimberly] has written a guide to assist you quickly root your G1 without having to go digging with forums for software application bits. The process starts by utilizing [Mike Moussa]’s rooting app to revert the phone to the RC29 build. You then utilize the “Android stupidly executes whatever you type” exploit to introduce telnetd as well as upgrade the bootloader. After that, the upgrade process is relatively easy. You just flash a new baseband as well as build. when you’ve got your new custom-made firmware, you can do future updates utilizing an app from the Android Market. We just recently updated our Android Dev Phone 1 to 1.5 as well as haven’t had any type of issues.
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